the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | a slender bristlelike or tubular process |
the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving |
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | how something is done or how it happens |
(language) communication by word of mouth | distinctive and stylish elegance |
the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | the popular taste at a given time |
a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | a particular kind (as to appearance) |
| a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
| editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display |
| (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma |